Electric-light cluster socket



v www v. HERSKVITZ ELECTRIC LIGHT CLUSTERl SOCKET Shams-Sheet l un.. M

Filed July 25 1918 May 27 1924i M. HERSKQVITZ ELECTRIC LIGHT CLUSTER` SOCKET' `Filed July 2s 191,8

wird s e MAX HERSKDVTZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLNQS,

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ELEGTRC-LEGHT LUST SQCEET.

Application filed July 23,

To all whom t may concern Ee it known that i, MAX Hnasnovrrz, a citizen of the 'United States7 residlin at Chicago, in the county of Cook and tate of Illinois, `have invented a new and useful Improvement in Electric-Light Cluster Sockets, of which the following isa specification.

My primary object is to provide a novel,

simple and economical*construction of clus telf-socket which may he used in a large variety of ways. Other objects. are to provide a cluster-socket which may loe caused to assume diierent'p'ositions for censing the electric light bulbs supported thereby to extend upwardly' or downwardly, as desired, ilependiiig upon the way in which the socket -"is wired, and to provide' a construction f which may be used in connection with hanger! ing domes, and 1n lamps, or the like, involving supporting standards which rise from a hase; and other objects as will oe appar ent Jfrom the following description. Referring to the accompanyingdraw- 1n s- 4`igure l is a. View in side elevation of a cluster socket involving a certain feature of my invention shown as supported from a standard and arranged to cause the lights to incline downwardly. Figure 2 is a similar View showing certain parts in section. Figures 3 ami 4 are sections taken at the lines 3 and i on Fig. l and Viewed in the direction of the respective arrows. Figure 5 isa View iikeilig. i of a cluster-socket adapted to receive the current-conducting Wires through' either one of opposed portions v thereof, the socket loeingn shown as supportecl on a standard; and Figure 6, a similar View showingv the cluster-socket wired 'from above in suspended condition.y as in the case of a hanging dome.

Refer 'ne' to the construction illu chiste? no: 64 cl formed oi? m zs proviciel being' so sociietiiousing hoilow portiers 1: entendi l in opposite directions? `'ont pr. rahljv in sligfrhtiy con- Yerging relation. shown, the casing re* to being` formed of sections 8 and. 9, .with joint between them extending iengtajwise of the portions 7. The section 8 is, 'by preference, the tohp'oi thek casing t,

shapeii as to prese .tightiy against the i "renting rotation of' isis. seriai in). 246,275'.

and; the section 9 the bottom thereof, these sections being preferably connected by the l lap-jointsQa and 'by means of screws 1G pass-A ing through 4ears l1 on the section 8 and screwing into the section 9.

The portions 7 of the casing 6, 'which are open at their extremities, are provicled with electric socket-interiorsthe 'terminals or' which are to be wireci to the electric cur rent-conducting wires which enter the casingr G, che electric socket-interiors employed being formed as unitary structures independently of the casing, and 'preferably being the soclet-interior commoniy used with attachments for electric terminals9 as dis- 70 tingnished 'from assembling with the casing' 6 a number of separate parte separately secured to the casing and forming a socket with electrical connections only hy reason of their connection withthe casing 6., to bear a certain relation to each other.

- En the construction slflown.i the iorm ofsocket-inte'rior employed is of a weli-lnown type in which switching mechanism oper ated as by the pull-chfain i2, is self-containecl. rhe portions 7 of the casing 6 are shaped generally to conform to the contour of the socket-interiors ar the iatterare preferably surrounded 'for linings 13 of insulating material. locatedv the portions 7 W3 of the casing. there being provided on the interior of the casing l` arent the inner ends of the socliet-interio s le which shut against the inner emi ie socket-in eriors ancia'iii in rigfiiif them in position in the casing; 6.

:in the assembling.; of the parts of fthe cluster-soclet illustrated` the eiectric light 1 socltetnteriors, with the insulated linings 13 surrounding then'n are laici into the liowportions of the ends of the easing with the elee--ic currentconrlncting wir. which rai'hich .s eaamjjie ii. 'top io to the hot secure@ in position hjv th. tions 8 and t? nreferahly the 

